Capital Punishment in Context: A Resource for College Courses / Capital Punishment in Context, 2007
http://www.capitalpunishmentincontext.org/

Death Penalty Survivors Testimonies / Amnesty International USA, 6 October 2007
http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?lang=e&id=ENGIOR400222007

Poland blocks EU protest over death penalty / Guardian, 12 September 2007
http://www.guardian.co.uk/eu/story/0,,2167017,00.html
Ian Traynor
"Poland is blocking a move by all other EU countries to inaugurate a continent-wide day of protest against the death penalty, with the conservative and staunchly Roman Catholic government in Warsaw arguing for parallel European condemnation of abortion and euthanasia."

Poland opposes EU day against death penalty / EUOBSERVER, 5 September 2007
http://euobserver.com/9/24704/?rk=1
Mark Beunderman
"Poland is opposing the creation of a yearly 'European day against the death Penalty', arguing that the issue should form part of a broader discussion on life and death – including abortion and euthanasia."

The Pros and Cons of Life Without Parole
British Journal of Criminology, Volume 47, Number 4, Pp. 597-615
http://bjc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/47/4/597
Catherine Appleton and Bent Grøver
"In this article we draw attention to the rapid and extraordinary increase in the use of ‘life imprisonment without parole’ in the United States. We aim to critically assess the main arguments put forward by supporters of whole life imprisonment as a punishment provided by law to replace the death penalty and argue against life-long detention as the ultimate sanction."
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Iran to hang 20 sex offenders and violent criminals / JURIST, 12 July 2007
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2007/07/iran-to-hang-20-sex-offenders-and.php
Gabriel Haboubi
"A spokesman for the Iranian Judiciary said Wednesday that 20 sex offenders and violent criminals will be executed by hanging over the next few days. Among the condemned are at least 15 arrested in May during a crackdown on "public morals". Some were arrested for homosexual conduct or alcohol consumption. ... Iran has faced increasing international criticism, from international rights advocates following the stoning execution of a man convicted of adultery at the beginning of the month."

Kyrgyzstan Abolishes Death Penalty / RFE/RL, 27 June 2007
http://digbig.com/4tect

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[USA] DNA Evidence and the Death Penalty / JURIST, 30 May 2007
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/forumy/2007/05/dna-evidence-and-death-penalty.php
William S. Sessions
"Argues that Governor Eliot Spitzer’s recent proposal to expand the New York DNA database and an Ohio Supreme Court ruling liberalizing DNA testing for inmates should be welcomed as necessary and overdue efforts to protect public safety while pursuing meaningful justice, especially for prisoners facing the prospect of capital punishment.
... Shortly after I became Director the FBI established a DNA laboratory we hoped could be used to verify that a suspect had indeed committed a crime. During my years as a U.S. Attorney and federal judge in Texas I had seen rapists and murderers walk free for lack of biological evidence; these were the cases I had in mind when we established the laboratory in Washington, D.C. The results of those first 100 tests astonished me. In thirty percent of cases the DNA gathered during the investigation did not match the DNA of the suspect. In three out of ten cases not only did we have the wrong person, but the guilty person was still at large. In capital cases the stakes were unnervingly high: the prospect of executing an innocent person was only slightly more appalling than the prospect of murderers and rapists walking free, unidentified and dangerous. The statistics today are roughly the same as they were 19 years ago."

Death penalty returns to Japan / Spero, 29 April 2007
http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?id=9175
"April 23 saw the execution of three men convicted of murder in Japan. The new Justice Minister, Jinen Nagase, has been more willing to impose the death penalty than his Buddhist predecessor Seiken Sugiura."

DEATH PENALTY STATISTICS 2006 / Amnesty International USA, April 2007
http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?lang=e&id=ENGACT500122007
"This document is a compilation of the annual death penalty statistics for 2006. It includes information under the following headings: Death Sentences and Executions in 2006 (AI Index: ACT 50/004/2007), Facts and Figures on the Death Penalty -1 January 2007 (AI Index: ACT 50/002/2007) List of Abolitionist and Retentionist Countries -1 January 2007 (AI Index: ACT 50/001/2007)."

[USA] Justice Delayed? Time Consumption in Capital Appeals: A Multistate Study / NCJRS, March 2007
PDF - http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/217555.pdf
Barry Latzer ; James N.G. Cauthen

[USA] Casting a Wider Net: Another Decade of Legislative Expansion of the Death Penalty in the United States
34 Pepp. L. Rev. 1 (2006)
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=959400
JEFFREY L. KIRCHMEIER [Sub required]

MEPs call for worldwide ban on death penalty / EUObserver, 1 February 2007
http://euobserver.com/9/23401/?rk=1
Helena Spongenberg
"The European Parliament has with an overwhelming majority voted in favour of a global moratorium on the death penalty, but European capitals are divided over a common EU stance on the issue."

The Deterrent effect of capital punishment: a question of life and death / Social Science research Network, 13 Dec 2006
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=259332
NBER Working Paper Series, Vol. w0018, pp. -, 1973
Isaac Ehrlich
"The debate over the legitimacy or propriety of the death penalty may be almost as old as the death penalty itself and, in the view of the increasing trend towards its complete abolition, perhaps as outdated. Not surprisingly, and as is generally recognized by contemporary writers on this topic, the philosophical and moral arguments for or against the death penalty have remained remarkably unchanged since the beginning of the debate. One outstanding issue has become, however, the subject of increased investigation, especially in recent years, due to its objective nature and the dominant role it has played in shaping the analytical and practical case against the death penalty. That issue is the deterrent effect of capital punishment, a reexamination of which, in both theory and practice, is the object of the paper." [Sub required]